I had never seen a real live dead person.
Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.
It’s amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.
It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.
The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they’re weak.
When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.
It means that we should celebrate today’s failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.
We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.
By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.
But my mother’s life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.